Potential for successful population establishment of the nonindigenous sacred ibis in the Florida Everglades

Biological Invasions

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 969-976

  Herring, Garth ^a   Gawlik, Dale E ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Everglades; Florida; Introduced species; Invasive species; Sacred ibis; Threskiornis aethiopicus; Wading bird conservation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650007039     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-007-9174-1     Document Type: Article

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